Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old sly quotes, sly sayings, and sly proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
It was a sly trick of God's to give a man work to do - it kept him from asking questions that God couldn't answer.Martha Ostenso
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Cunning is strength withheld.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Cunning and treachery are the offspring of incapacity.Francois de la Rochefoucauld
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The crafty person is always in danger; and when they think they walk in the dark, all their pretenses are transparent.John Tillotson
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A clever mind is not a heart. Knowledge doesn't really care, wisdom does.Benjamin Hoff
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A sly old fish, too cunning for the hook.George Crabbe
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A sly piece of good luck, which nobody knows of is delightful.Publilius Syrus
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Cunning is the dwarf of wisdom.William Rounseville Alger
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The greatest cunning is to have none at all.Carl Sandburg
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Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables.Sappho
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Cunning differs from wisdom as twilight from open day Samuel Johnson
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It would seem that the more irresponsible and crafty one is, the more likely one is to have a talent for storytelling.Osamu Dazai
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Clever tyrants are never punished.Voltaire
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A clever man commits no minor blunders.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.Francois de la Rochefoucauld
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A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.Albert Einstein
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It is easy to be clever if you leave something important out.Peter Redgrove
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To be clever in argument is not rationality but rationalization.Eliezer Yudkowsky
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Everybody is clever, just in their own ways.Matt Groening
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Clever men are good, but they are not the best.Thomas Carlyle